Cutting – With product handling means – Means to move – guide – or permit free fall or flight of product
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-04
2006-04-04
Shoap, Allan N. (Department: 3724)
Cutting
With product handling means
Means to move, guide, or permit free fall or flight of product
C083S408000, C270S052020, C271S185000, C271S202000, C271S225000, C271S270000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07021184
ABSTRACT:
An inserter input system including a web feeder providing a web of printed material to be split by a web slitting knife along the web's direction of travel. The split web is then cut transverse to the direction of travel by a rotary cutter operating at a first velocity, resulting in side-by-side individual sheets. Downstream of the rotary cutter, a right angle turn mechanism receives each of the side-by-side sheets and reorients them by ninety degrees. Further the right angle turn reorients the sheets into a serial shingled arrangement. A high speed separation nip pulls individual shingled sheets out from the shingled arrangement. The speed of the separation nip is such that a predetermined gap between the previously shingled sheets is formed. In a further preferred embodiment of the present invention, the speed of the rotary cutter and right angle turn mechanism are controlled to adjust a quantity of sheets that would be generated from displacement traveled due to inertia during a deceleration of the system to a stop.
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Masotta John R
Rozenfeld Boris
Sussmeier John W
Wright William J
Chaolas Angelo N.
Cummings Michael J.
Malandra, Jr. Charles R.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Prone Jason
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